If you’re a sports fanatic for whom too much exercise is never enough and for whom clicking this link is too much of a physical effort, here is your blood, sweat and tears buffet for day 14 in a handy shopping list, cut, pasted and printed in bold. Better put another pot of coffee on the stove…

3:30 p.m.: Open water swimming men 10km

5:00 p.m.: Golf Ladies Stroke Play, Round 3

5:00 p.m.: Taekwondo Men Welterweight 68-80kg Last 32

17:09: Taekwondo Women Welterweight 57-67kg Last 16

17:21: Taekwondo Men Welterweight 68-80kg Last 16

18:00: Diving, Men, 10 m Platform, Preliminary Round

18:00: Gymnastics – Rhythmic women’s group, all-around qualification

18:00: Table Tennis, Men’s Team, Bronze Medal Match (France vs Japan)

18:05: Athletics Heptathlon Women Long Jump

18:15: Men’s Sport Climbing, Bouldering and Lead Combination Finals – Bouldering

18:30: Canoe Sprint Women C2 500m Semifinal

18:40: Athletics, Women’s 4 x 400 m Relay, Round 1

18:50: Canoe racing women K2 500m semi-final

19:00: Wrestling – Freestyle, Men, 57 kg, Repechage

19:00: Wrestling – Freestyle, Men, 86 kg, Repechage

19:00: Wrestling – Freestyle Women 57kg Repechage

19:05: Athletics, Men, 4 x 400 m Relay, Round 1

19:07: Wrestling – Freestyle Men 74kg Qualification

19:10: Canoe racing, men, K2, 500 m, semi-final

19:14: Wrestling – Freestyle Men 125 kg 1/8 Final

19:14: Wrestling – Freestyle Women 62kg 1/8 Final

19:21: Wrestling – Freestyle, Men 74 kg, Round of 16

19:23: Athletics, Heptathlon, Javelin, Women – Group A

19:30: Athletics, Men, 800 m, Semifinal

19:30: Canoe sprint, men C1, 1000 m, semi-final

20:05: Athletics, 100 m hurdles, women, semi-final

20:10: Wrestling – Freestyle, Men, 125 kg, Quarterfinals

20:10: Wrestling – Freestyle Women 62kg, Quarterfinals

20:13: Sailing, Men’s Formula Kite Final – Race 2 (postponed)

20:17: Wrestling – Freestyle, Men 74 kg, Quarterfinals

20:22: Sailing, Men’s Formula Kite Final – Race 3 (postponed)

20:31: Sailing, Men’s Formula Kite Final – Race 4

20:32: Athletics, Heptathlon, Javelin, Women – Group B

20:35: Sport Climbing, Bouldering and Lead Combination, Final, Men – Lead

20:40: Canoe sprint women C2 500m final B

20:40: Sailing, Men’s Formula Kite Final – Race 5

20:49: Sailing, Men’s Formula Kite Final – Race 6

20:50: Canoe sprint women C2 500m final A

21:00: Canoe sprint women’s K2 500m final B

21:00: Modern Pentathlon Men Individual Semifinal A – Riding

21:00: Water Polo Men Ranking Round 5-8 (Italy – Spain)

21:10: Canoe sprint women’s K2 500m final A

21:20: Canoe sprint, men, K2, 500 m, final B

21:30: Canoe Sprint Men K2 500m Final A

21:40: Canoe sprint men C1 1000m final B

21:40: Modern Pentathlon Men’s Individual Semifinal A – Fencing Bonus Round

21:50: Canoe sprint men C1 1000m final A

22:00: CCycling – Qualification for the women’s track cycling sprint

10:00 p.m.: Hockey Women Bronze Medal Game (Argentina vs Belgium)

10:20 p.m.: Modern Pentathlon Men’s Individual Semifinal A – Swimming

10:30 p.m.: Gymnastics – Women’s Rhythmic All-Around Individual Final

10:30 p.m.: Taekwondo Women Welterweight 57-67kg Quarterfinals

10:35 p.m.: Water Polo Men Semifinals (Serbia vs USA)

10:40 p.m.: Modern Pentathlon Men’s Individual Semifinal A – Laser Run

10:40 p.m.: Taekwondo Men Welterweight 68-80kg Quarterfinals

22:41: Cycling – Track Cycling, Men, Sprint, Semi-Final

10:48 p.m.: Cycling – Track Cycling Women’s Sprint 1/32 Final

11:00 p.m.: Diving, Women’s 3m Springboard, Final

11:00 p.m.: Soccer Women Bronze Medal Game (Spain vs Germany)

11:00 p.m.: Table Tennis, Men’s Team, Gold Medal Match (China vs Sweden)

11:00 p.m.: Weightlifting Men 89kg

11:38 p.m.: Cycling – Track Cycling Women’s Sprint Repechage Round 1

Here are the highlights from Simon Burnton’s Day 14…

Friday, August 9 Day 14

• Women break
  The breakdancing competition, which takes place inappropriately at the historic Place de la Concorde, lasts only two days. Today is the women’s competition (also called B-Girls) and tomorrow the men’s competition (or B-Boys). Nicka – the The Lithuanian Dominika Banevicwho has been breakdancing since he was eight years old, won the World and European Championships last year at the age of 16, but the two finalists of the Asian Games, 671 (The Chinese Liu Qingyi) and American (The Japanese Ami Yuasa) are considered the breakers most likely to make the final throw tonight.

• Wrestling: Men 86kg Final
  There were rivalries, and then there were David Taylor vs Hassan Yazdani. For years, it seemed that nothing could separate these representatives of the clashing cultures of the United States and Iran: In Tokyo, both easily won the competition before Taylor won a thrilling 4-3 final with a last-second takedown. Since then, they have faced each other in the final of every major championship. But in a surprise upset, Taylor, who had been undefeated for two and a half years at the time, lost to Aaron Brooks at the US Trials and promptly retired to become a coach. This is the beginning of a new era.

• Hockey: Women’s final
  TThe Netherlands have dominated women’s field hockey for years: in the 15 World Championships they have reached 13 finals and won nine, including the last three in a row; in the 16 European Championships they have reached 14 finals and won 12, including the last four; and they have reached the last five Olympic finals and won three. They lead both the men’s and women’s world rankings, the latter by a wide margin. It would be a huge surprise if they weren’t in today’s two medal games, but can anyone stop them?

Another gold win from Day 13 that was worth platinum was that of Letsile Tebogo from BotswanaThe 21-year-old, who was considered an outsider, finished ahead of none other than the 100 m winner from the USA, Noah Lyles, and even sacrificed a few fractions of a second of his time to beat his chest shortly before the finish line.

It turned out to be a triumph, but also a tribute to his mother, who died in May. Tebogo later revealed he had taken three to four weeks off because he was struggling to come to terms with her death. But with the Paris Games just around the corner and the race of his life looming, he gritted his teeth and took to the track wearing spikes bearing his mother’s birth date.

It hasn’t really clicked with me that she’s really gone. I need to find the reason why I started my career as an athlete and why I should continue. For me it was a really beautiful race. She’s up there watching and she’s really, really happy.

Among all those hundreds of medals, one was perhaps a little more valuable. Arshad Nadeem wrote his name in history by winning the men’s javelin throw final yesterday, becoming the first track and field athlete from Pakistan to win gold at an Olympic Games. Nadeem entered the competition as an underdog, but the javelin thrower defied all expectations to become his country’s first medalist since 1992 (when it won a bronze medal in men’s hockey in Barcelona). Nadeem’s record-breaking throw also made him only the fourth athlete to cross the 90-meter mark in the men’s javelin throw at an Olympic Games.

The medal haul at these Paris Olympics continues to grow, but the top three places remain the same. The USA continues to lead with 30 gold medals, with China close behind with 29. There is a world of difference between these two superpowers and Australia, which is in third place with 18 gold medals.

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